Tiverton v Casuals. Sat 24th Oct 2020. Kick Off 3-00pm.
Casuals get back to league action (
last game was on 7th Oct at Gosport) with the long trip to league leaders (
and one of the fancied promotion contenders)
Tiverton Town.
Tiverton Town have only lost one league game this season, a
0-1 reverse at
Dorchester. Having started the season with a
5-0 home win against
Wimborne, they have beaten both
Farnborough and
Weston-s-M at
home 3-1.
Away from home they have had good wins at
Swindon 2-1 and
Yate 3-0.
They were knocked out of the
F.A. Cup 3-5 at
home by local rivals
Taunton Town.
Since our promotion we have played Tiverton four times, with our only point coming in
Jan 2020 when a mangerless side draw
2-2;-
2018-19; Tiverton 5 Casuals 1 ~ Casuals 1 Tiverton 2
2019-20; Casuals 1 Tiverton 3 ~ Tiverton 2 Casuals 2
As Tiverton are at home their twitter feed could well keep you up to date on Match Day;-
twitter.com/tivertontownfc but also;-
twitter.com/WaltonCasualsFCTo understand the difficulty of the task on Saturday Football Web Pages in it's computerised section predicts Tiverton on current form winning the League by 9 points (
Casuals finishing 16th) and Saturdays score line being a 5-0 win to Tiverton. (
Lies, damn lies and statistics);-
www.footballwebpages.co.uk/southern-football-league-premier-south-division/league-table/predictedCurrent info off the Southern League Web-Site, i.e. main page and look to tab off various sections;-
southern-football-league.co.uk/team/TivertonTown/2264/2020/2021/PA usual bit of stato.Although taking part in the F.A. Cup in the late 40's early 50's, Tiverton didn't make a serious start in Senior football, until they joined the Western League in 1973-74. They gained promotion to the Southern League in1999-2000. Arguably the 1990's was their most note worthy period.
They reached the
Vase final in
1992-93 (
losing to Bridlington Town 0-1), before winning the trophy in
1997-98 (
beating Tow Law Town 1-0) and
1998-99 (
Beating Bedlington Terriers 1-0).
They have reached the 1st Round Proper on
7 occasions;
1990-91 (losing 2-6 at Aldershot),
91-92 (losing 0-5 at Barnet),
94-95 (losing 1-3 at home to Leyton Orient),
97-98 (losing at 1-2 Cheltenham),
2001-02 (losing 1-3 game played at Cardiff City),
02-03 (eventually losing 2-3 at Crawley Town),
04-05 (losing 1-3 at home to Doncaster Rovers)
Off the Football Club History Data Base;-
www.fchd.info/TIVERTOT.HTMTiverton Town Web Site;-
www.tivertontownfc.co.uk/?fbclid=IwAR0eMk-ejZ8VefbEOdrFiEftOEOO25lXsAN8wsKOznodpwLctZ4ggUcI4CEExcellent ferreting TWM/JTR/RTR/CR/FH
